The zipheads aka the Focussed. Biochemical (originally diseased induced in the Emergents) manipulation of the brian to create deep undisturbed thought on an issue.
Have trolled someone in there journal for that - whinging about twitter and I did a word count on his post and said he could have twittered it. --------------------- 144 am safe
None of the people I know IRL are on twitter or and only a few are twits. Some know how to browse porn and use iTunes, but they generally have a life on the 'net.
It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know there is a sacrifice between speed, completeness and size. I can't see getting good info from 140 char to make it worthwhile - unless we are going to play follow the link and I would rather hit a big blog (eg/. ) that has summaries and many links than try and follow a vast volume of little stuff and piece it together.
Maybe it just won't work for the way I want my information.
2^32 * 140 char is approx 2^40 = 280Gb so all the actual tweets would fit one smallish (new) hard drive
Amount of time used - a lot
Benefit? Unknown.
What do people get out of it? I thought about it and don't see the point unless I am desperate for continual updates about everything. I just took a week off from my regular news sources (website - bloomberg and newspaper types), because I am not having a holiday this year and needed a break. There a few hundred unread rss messages waiting for me (/., groklaw and so on).
I never got to boot NetBSD to see what the first ide hardisk is called by NetBSD
linux knows it as/dev/sda
We cross now to a live report from the battelfield
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OK so I didn't read the documentation before I booted the LiveCd, all that follows is my fault however much i rant.
1) CD detected, boots and fairly simple options to start with. 2) partitioning - think I picked the right partition on/dev/sda (the unused 19.5 Gb one - the one I cleared and wiped formatting from) to use, kept having a hissy fit about not having an active partition 3) the mistake I think - selected NetBSD boot loader option (Yes rather than No) 4) install completes and says is ready to go, looked good ran reasonably clean, no bizarre error messages 5) reboot - garbage flies by on the screen
6) thru 9) fiddle with NetBSD install Diagnostic on 5) bootname parameter not recognised and unusable columns(1):(3) or screen after reboot that should show bootname options keeps scrolling with same set of heiroglyphics in in col 1 and bootname options in col 3 10) boot Puppy and do job application I almost forgot about 11) try to reset grub - no dice 12) try to reinstall grub - no dice 13) try to access files on/dev/sda - barely - Puppy linux found all the partitions (and then some), OpenSolaris found the first 4 or 5 partions, Ubuntu Live CD x386/x686 9.04 says/dev/sda unpartitioned (using GParted).
OpenSolaris also chose to choke at 3% on the install (formatting the partition).
SystemrescueCd has hissy fit over trying to access drive and I can't pull anything back cleanly without risking major loss.
In none of these was there any sign of the NetBSD install - systemrescuecd testdisk lets you list files in the partitions it finds - none of them look liked a NetBSD install, my guess when the partition table failed the NEtBSD files went with them but why 4) look OK?
14) reboot Puppy linux, delete GB's of stuff on/dev/sdb (mostly movies recorded from TV) and copy what puppy lets me access from/dev/sda over to/dev/sdb
Final diagnostic - when NetBSD was setting the bootloader it may have overwritten something in/dev/sda's partition table/MBR and screwed the pooch, the stuff is all there - except my Ubuntu 8.10 system install (/home is on another partition to it).
So am busy cleaning up - amazing how much crap you accumulate in a few years.
I admit has been mostly the same file system & partitions since 2006 on/dev/sda and has had some heavy abuse and that may have tipped the balance.
So am wiping/dev/sda after rescuing everything I can - and I had recorded but not exported FanFan La Tulipe (2003) 4 or 5 days ago so it's gone. My choppy socky movies are safe on my IPod.
About to Burn U9.04 i386 release to CD after I finish cleaning up (wipe all files and dir's, delete all partitions) and installing clean (using U9.04 to repartition).
Will try NetBSD5 x64 after I have reinstalled and have read the doco so I don't have another accident. Looks like it wanted to work but the harddisk partition table failed at exactly the wrong moment.
Summary - NetBSD5.0 install failed due to a malfunction in the install disk partition table cause unknown, but apparently all hardware (no acpi problems noted or logged to console).
Just asked ISP to cache it so others in Oz can get it fast, easy and free (we all have download limits on Australia's largest ISP except for stuff on their cache site).
Re:Oh mighty masters of xBSD help please
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Seems strange that the amd64 iso is only 247Mb ftp://iso.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/5.0/ So hopefully will download while I sleep and I will try and remember to report back tomorrow (probably about 24 hours from this post).
I suspect the BIOS may be screwed for anything except Windows and there are no further BIOS updates from Asus. I spent some quality time (it was actually great) on IRC with the coreboot people, but trying the alpha version (of coreboot v3) with no way to restore a working BIOS isn't a good plan.
I haven;t added these comments to the bug: FreeBSD64 chokes as well at some point. OpenSolaris CD boots but I couldn't tell if it was running in x64 mode or not. Didn't stay up long enough (Gnome &/or X would bork after about 5 minutes).
Does NetBSD have different (better possibly but at least different) hardware detection and so might boot so i can get usuable diagnostics on x64 type questions that are plaguing the other installs.
I am guessing it is some type of i/o driver (ICH7?) problem but I can't get a useful enough diagnostic to do anything useful.
tried a day or two ago when I got the email (don't believe me? check my journal)
Move - encounter dice rolled and action happens.
Only once did I get chance to flee - a bunch of other characters were having it out - you could join a side or flee. I ran.
Not sure about how to go about doing things - there is a small window when it looks like you can do something. Maybe I haven't read enough to know how to try stuff.
I have built the linux version from source (using whatever is under the hood of depot_tools/gclient sync - git I think).
Just to check the speed claims as I found it hard to believe - but they appear to be true. Default is debug build was at about 9 secs on SunSpider (with most of the difference in the strings section) vs release build 1.4sec and this was about a week ago.
Usable kind of but noticeably improving with each build I do.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/26/seth-finkelstein-google-advertising "Google recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting". These are systems that collect extensive personal data, for marketing purposes. To best understand the issues,"
I once upon a time worked for a statistics agency and even without names and addresses it is surprisingly easy to identify people in anonymous data, even anonymised unit record data can be deconstructed to some degree. Depending on what you want to achieve don't even need to identify them.
Marrying up these datasets and ideas would be gruesome.
"What do other parts of the world do ?" The same thing
"Are hubs (fiber locations?) for cost savings, lazy design, best design for a shareholder when burning tax payers re nation building, collusion between telcos, easy NSA access ?" All of the above At some point you need to connect network E from Elbonia to network P from PHiliBelphia and also networks a through z. This starts to get expensive real fast no matter how you do it. Doing it in one place lowers cost (hub) but focuses for a point of failure. As the article said - you can't get away from this. I like how they said the best way to prevent cascading network damage is to shutdown the "nearest" hub connections to the failed point to minimize the damage - like they do when the electricity transmission network or a generator goes off somewhere. It isn't optional and can't really be worked around - if you want random person E to get stuff from P then you need interconnects somewhere. Yeah you could do it with a lot (a real lot) of little interconnects all over the place - just don't and service them as your staff will always be in the field.
Fisheries and Games inspectors have a lto of power - including search you appear to be fishing so we will check your catch.
If what you have done is illegal and goes before a magistrate they can take your fishing ear - including rods, tackle, boat & car (if you were using them when fishing).
And any bank robber dumb enough to use their own car on a job would probably find it first impounded as evidence and 2nd seized and sold when they were convicted.
Slashdot Mirror
Let us see if this openness includes chat - yahoo messenger for linux is a joke. Gyachi is best of the rest, but hamstrung but stupid yahoo.
Maybe if yahoo do something like - publish the chat specs, people would really take them seriously.
I won't hold my breath.
What I found interesting was that I am reading Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness In the Sky", only partway through.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
The zipheads aka the Focussed. Biochemical (originally diseased induced in the Emergents) manipulation of the brian to create deep undisturbed thought on an issue.
Originally published 1999
I want
a) Rolling Stones
b) Deep Purple (You Fool No-one, Burn,
My Woman From Tokyo)
Is it really so hard?
Norway is stuffing their oil money into a "sovereign wealth fund" for when the oil runs out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Size_of_SWFs
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fin/Selected-topics/The-Government-Pension-Fund.html?id=1441
Have trolled someone in there journal for that - whinging about twitter and I did a word count on his post and said he could have twittered it.
---------------------
144 am safe
None of the people I know IRL are on twitter or and only a few are twits. Some know how to browse porn and use iTunes, but they generally have a life on the 'net.
It just seems to me if have something worthwhile to say 140 char isn't enough.
With the volume of information I am interested in increasing I know there is a sacrifice between speed, completeness and size. I can't see getting good info from 140 char to make it worthwhile - unless we are going to play follow the link and I would rather hit a big blog (eg /. ) that has summaries and many links than try and follow a vast volume of little stuff and piece it together.
Maybe it just won't work for the way I want my information.
At this level of analysis being out by less than a factor of 10 is fine
Looks like I screwed converting 140 2^6 = 64 2^7 = 128 2^8 = 256 and used 2^32 instead of 2^31
2^32 * 140 char is approx 2^40 = 280Gb so all the actual tweets would fit one smallish (new) hard drive
Amount of time used - a lot
Benefit? Unknown.
What do people get out of it? I thought about it and don't see the point unless I am desperate for continual updates about everything. I just took a week off from my regular news sources (website - bloomberg and newspaper types), because I am not having a holiday this year and needed a break. There a few hundred unread rss messages waiting for me (/., groklaw and so on).
Educate me.
The admins missed the prime for about a month
http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11996
Apparently the email that was supposed to be sent wasn't when the prime was reported
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1244909&cid=28091617
$30 is a carton of beer, a pdf is much cheaper (Score:1)
by tqft (619476) on 01:48 AM May 26th, 2009 (#28091617) Homepage Journal
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/publist.html#bottom [berkeley.edu]
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/pdf/361.NanoLet.9-Begtrup.pdf [berkeley.edu]
The highlights
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/highlights.html [berkeley.edu]
I never got to boot NetBSD to see what the first ide hardisk is called by NetBSD
linux knows it as /dev/sda
OK so I didn't read the documentation before I booted the LiveCd, all that follows is my fault however much i rant.
1) CD detected, boots and fairly simple options to start with. /dev/sda (the unused 19.5 Gb one - the one I cleared and wiped formatting from) to use, kept having a hissy fit about not having an active partition
2) partitioning - think I picked the right partition on
3) the mistake I think - selected NetBSD boot loader option (Yes rather than No)
4) install completes and says is ready to go, looked good ran reasonably clean, no bizarre error messages
5) reboot - garbage flies by on the screen
6) thru 9) fiddle with NetBSD install /dev/sda - barely - Puppy linux found all the partitions (and then some), OpenSolaris found the first 4 or 5 partions, Ubuntu Live CD x386/x686 9.04 says /dev/sda unpartitioned (using GParted).
Diagnostic on 5) bootname parameter not recognised and unusable columns(1):(3) or screen after reboot that should show bootname options keeps scrolling with same set of heiroglyphics in in col 1 and bootname options in col 3
10) boot Puppy and do job application I almost forgot about
11) try to reset grub - no dice
12) try to reinstall grub - no dice
13) try to access files on
OpenSolaris also chose to choke at 3% on the install (formatting the partition).
SystemrescueCd has hissy fit over trying to access drive and I can't pull anything back cleanly without risking major loss.
In none of these was there any sign of the NetBSD install - systemrescuecd testdisk lets you list files in the partitions it finds - none of them look liked a NetBSD install, my guess when the partition table failed the NEtBSD files went with them but why 4) look OK?
14) reboot Puppy linux, delete GB's of stuff on /dev/sdb (mostly movies recorded from TV) and copy what puppy lets me access from /dev/sda over to /dev/sdb
Final diagnostic - when NetBSD was setting the bootloader it may have overwritten something in /dev/sda's partition table/MBR and screwed the pooch, the stuff is all there - except my Ubuntu 8.10 system install (/home is on another partition to it).
So am busy cleaning up - amazing how much crap you accumulate in a few years.
I admit has been mostly the same file system & partitions since 2006 on /dev/sda and has had some heavy abuse and that may have tipped the balance.
So am wiping /dev/sda after rescuing everything I can - and I had recorded but not exported FanFan La Tulipe (2003) 4 or 5 days ago so it's gone. My choppy socky movies are safe on my IPod.
About to Burn U9.04 i386 release to CD after I finish cleaning up (wipe all files and dir's, delete all partitions) and installing clean (using U9.04 to repartition).
Will try NetBSD5 x64 after I have reinstalled and have read the doco so I don't have another accident. Looks like it wanted to work but the harddisk partition table failed at exactly the wrong moment.
Summary - NetBSD5.0 install failed due to a malfunction in the install disk partition table cause unknown, but apparently all hardware (no acpi problems noted or logged to console).
Just asked ISP to cache it so others in Oz can get it fast, easy and free (we all have download limits on Australia's largest ISP except for stuff on their cache site).
Seems strange that the amd64 iso is only 247Mb
ftp://iso.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/5.0/
So hopefully will download while I sleep and I will try and remember to report back tomorrow (probably about 24 hours from this post).
I suspect the BIOS may be screwed for anything except Windows and there are no further BIOS updates from Asus. I spent some quality time (it was actually great) on IRC with the coreboot people, but trying the alpha version (of coreboot v3) with no way to restore a working BIOS isn't a good plan.
The really short summary: I want to run a 64bit OS on 64 bit hardware, everything to date is choking.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/330866
I haven;t added these comments to the bug:
FreeBSD64 chokes as well at some point.
OpenSolaris CD boots but I couldn't tell if it was running in x64 mode or not. Didn't stay up long enough (Gnome &/or X would bork after about 5 minutes).
Does NetBSD have different (better possibly but at least different) hardware detection and so might boot so i can get usuable diagnostics on x64 type questions that are plaguing the other installs.
I am guessing it is some type of i/o driver (ICH7?) problem but I can't get a useful enough diagnostic to do anything useful.
TIA
tried a day or two ago when I got the email (don't believe me? check my journal)
Move - encounter dice rolled and action happens.
Only once did I get chance to flee - a bunch of other characters were having it out - you could join a side or flee. I ran.
Not sure about how to go about doing things - there is a small window when it looks like you can do something. Maybe I haven't read enough to know how to try stuff.
I have built the linux version from source (using whatever is under the hood of depot_tools/gclient sync - git I think).
Just to check the speed claims as I found it hard to believe - but they appear to be true. Default is debug build was at about 9 secs on SunSpider (with most of the difference in the strings section) vs release build 1.4sec and this was about a week ago.
Usable kind of but noticeably improving with each build I do.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/26/seth-finkelstein-google-advertising
"Google recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting". These are systems that collect extensive personal data, for marketing purposes. To best understand the issues,"
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001422.html
I once upon a time worked for a statistics agency and even without names and addresses it is surprisingly easy to identify people in anonymous data, even anonymised unit record data can be deconstructed to some degree. Depending on what you want to achieve don't even need to identify them.
Marrying up these datasets and ideas would be gruesome.
"What do other parts of the world do ?"
The same thing
"Are hubs (fiber locations?) for cost savings, lazy design, best design for a shareholder when burning tax payers re nation building, collusion between telcos, easy NSA access ?"
All of the above
At some point you need to connect network E from Elbonia to network P from PHiliBelphia and also networks a through z. This starts to get expensive real fast no matter how you do it. Doing it in one place lowers cost (hub) but focuses for a point of failure. As the article said - you can't get away from this. I like how they said the best way to prevent cascading network damage is to shutdown the "nearest" hub connections to the failed point to minimize the damage - like they do when the electricity transmission network or a generator goes off somewhere. It isn't optional and can't really be worked around - if you want random person E to get stuff from P then you need interconnects somewhere. Yeah you could do it with a lot (a real lot) of little interconnects all over the place - just don't and service them as your staff will always be in the field.
Yes I have one and no I am not going to share - but they can be found easy 3rd party builds mozillazine should answer your question (x64 pdoed even)
"I dont get why canonical, debian and that lot dont PGO their builds though?"
Good question - relatively easy even for slackers like me
I downloaded the stuff (see down page) and I also just checked the Ac's links they are good
Tried to download the source from www.cdsmodel.com (where the TFA) points you.
Wants an email address
"I Accept
Please keep me Informed about changes to the Standard Model:
Email Address:
"
If you choose not to be informed it asks for an address anyway.
If you add an email address - I used a gmail address - it asks for a work address. emailsucks@jpmorganblows.com now has a copy of the source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
where physics meets computation
Don't forget the Beckenstein bound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
"In Computer Science, this implies that there is a maximum information processing rate "
In UK/NZ/Australia - poaching laws go way back.
Fisheries and Games inspectors have a lto of power - including search you appear to be fishing so we will check your catch.
If what you have done is illegal and goes before a magistrate they can take your fishing ear - including rods, tackle, boat & car (if you were using them when fishing).
And any bank robber dumb enough to use their own car on a job would probably find it first impounded as evidence and 2nd seized and sold when they were convicted.